On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If fetchmail was able to pass the mail > > to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to > > handle incoming mail) > > Can you clarify what you mean by this? I have fetchmail pass mail > to exim; but exim is not listening to port 25. Or rather, it's not > *normally* listening to port 25 . . .are you saying that when fetchmail > is explicitly configured to invoke an MDA in /etc/fetchmailrc, that > MDA is briefly listening on port 25 until it's done receiving from > fetchmail, and then quits?
It's not fetchmail's configuration that does it, it's inetd's. Have a look in /etc/inetd.conf; you should find a line like smtp stream tcp nowait.150 mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs by means of which exim is automatically woken up to service incoming SMTP connections. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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